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PETERSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 21353.

344 F.2d 419 (1965)

L. K. PETERSON and William H. Scott, Jr., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 13, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Walsh, E. Taylor Moore, Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Morton L. Susman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Woodrow Seals, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before WHITAKER, Senior Judge, and RIVES and JONES, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Peterson is in the small loan business in Texas. Scott is a lawyer. Peterson was charged in Count 1 with attempting to evade a large part of his personal income taxes for 1958 in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201. Both Peterson and Scott were charged in Count 2 with stating falsely that $5,000 which Peterson paid to Scott was a legal fee "properly chargeable as an expense" on Peterson's 1958 income tax return in violation of 18 U.S.C. §...

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